Understanding Post-War British Society

Too many sociology textbooks begin and end with how society is structured. To understand how society operates it is necessary to explore not only its constituent structures and relationships, but how these structures emerge and why changes occur within them.
By bringing together a group of distinguished sociologists and social historians, this book critically appraises the usefulness of current theories in advancing our understanding of contemporary society. It explores British society as dynamic and developing. In the process the authors draw our attention to the fact that society is shaped not just by social policy and structures, but by how far these influence people's life-patterns, attitudes, experience and conduct.

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Table of contents : Introduction: Understanding British society 1. Trends in Post-War British Social History 2. Elements of Demographic Change in Britain Since 1945 3. Political Sociology 1945-1992 4. The Family in Post-War Britain Since 1945 5. Companiate Marriage and the Double Burden: Women in Britain Since 1945 6. Old Age and Gerontology 7. Employment and Industrial Law 8. Non-Manual Labour 9. Poverty in Post-War Britain 10. Aspects of Education in Post-War Britain 11. Consumption 12. Food Nutrition in Post-War Britain 13. Religion in Post-War Britain: A Sociological View 14. The Arts, Books, Media and Entertainments in Britain Since 1945 15. Gender Inequalities in Leisure and Sport in Post-War Britain

Contributor Information :Celia Brackenridge (Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, Joan C Brown, Robert G Burgess (University of Warwick), Rosemary Crompton (University of Kent), John Curtice (University of Strathclyde), Grace Davie (University of Exeter), Chris Harris (University College of Swansea), Christopher M Law (University of Salford), Arthur Marwick (Open University), Anne Murcott (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Edward Royle (University of York), Richard M Smith (Welcome Unit for the History of Medicine), Penny Summerfield (University of Lancaster), Anthia Tinker (Kings College, London), Diana Woodward (Higher Education Funding Council)

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"... brings together the perspectives of leading sociologists and social historians to understand the shaping of British society." - Contact

"This introductory textbook brings together fifteen essays b sociologists and social historians on major developments in post -war British society ..." - Intl Review of Social History Amsterdam

"What the contributors do reveal is the general lack of research-based historical writing on this period, however, the often helpful references which follow each paper do point students to such sources as do exist." - Getting up to Date

"This collection of essays is valuable ..." - British Jrnl of Sociology